Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1887-07-27
STATE. COAST AND ELsRwHERE.


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need apply.
According to statistics collected,
last year the car coupler killed 459
brakemen, crippled for life 4OSS, and
painfully injured 1870. Total killed
and wounded 1896.
( Action on the case of DR. Tanner,
who called Long a member OF the
House of Commons "a -, snob' has
been postponed until next Thursday so
that the person giving the offense may
be present, he now being in Ireland.
Col. W. j. Reynolds, one of the
wealthiest farmers in South Carolina,
who died last month, bequeathed the
bulk of his fortune, estimated at $780,
00O to colored woman, who was
formerly his slave, and to her children
OF whom he is the father.
The Congregation of the Propa.
ganda at Rome is awaiting the report
of the meeting of the eleven American
Bishops, presided over by Cardinal
Gibbons, before pronouncing finally
whether the Vatican approves or con-
demns the Knights of Labor.
The demand for silver notes contin-
ues heavy, and the Treasury Depart
ment is unable as yet to meet it, Ar
rangements have been made by the
department. to secure an increased
supply of those notes from the Bureau
of Engraving and Printing, and they
will be issued as soon as possible.
William Cannon a Postmaster at
Fort Abraham Lincoln, ten miles
below Blsmark, D. T., detected in
defrauding the Government, commit
ted suicide. The fraud was commit
ted by making false returns of cam
celled stamps. A thorough investi-
CATION of postofiices, it is thought will
unearth similar swindles,
Mrs, John Day, of Oliver county,
Dakota, discovered a big wildcat kill
ing her chickens, and the sight of her
bleeding pets neryed her TO grab a
shotgun and fire q charge at the ami
NAL. The small shot served only to
infuriate the beast, and 1. attacked the
woman who defended herself with an
axe, and after q desperate struggle
killed the cat.
Walter Wattles, brother Of o. s.
Wattles, rancher of Fish Lake Val
ley, was taken with conyulsions upon
the Fourth of July. 1t was brought
Oh by drinking a quantity OF cold
spring water when heated He re-
covered the first fit but ate hearty
break fast last Tuesday and afterwards
went into convuisions from which
he died.
There is belief that the murder of
Marie Regnault by Prazini at Paris
was planned and executed with the
purpose of obtaining sufficient money
to carry the Italian adventurer to New
York to join hls sweetheart, who is re.
ported in the Parislan journal to have
been the daughter of New York
banker, who became acquainted with
the murderer in the fall of 1886.
The count of the cash and securities
in the Treasurcr's Office which began
May 23d will probably be completed
this week, only the gold coin remains
to be counted. The funds on hand
to $95 900, 900 of which SOL,
100000 was in standard silver dollars,
S25, ,O00,O 900 IN gold com, 100000 in
silver and the balance in
notes and certificates.
The London Lancet says people can
project themselves and their children
from the bites of gpats and other in
secls by sponging the skin and hair
with weak solution of carb0lic acid.
1t will drive away the whole tribe.
The solution need not be more than
six or seven per cent. acid, and it may
be added to water until the latter
smells strongly. Ii Is perfectly safe.
Horses and cattle could be protected
from flies In the same way.
The swamp land question over
shadows all others in Grant county,
Oregon. A few men attempted to
yobble up all the good land in the
valleys by falsely representing them
IS swamp lands. A grand jury ill.,
ilcted some of the grabbers for pur.
Jury and an agent of this State is now
inspecting the lands. A
Meeting of the settlers of Harney Val
ey was held at Barnes last Saturday
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